Pitts appeared in 18 games for the eventual three-time World Champion A’s, batting .244 with 10 hits over 41 at-bats, while playing some first, second and third base.
The following season he’d appear in 10 games, but only getting three plate appearances, in which he went 1-for-3 with a double, run scored and RBI.
Sadly for him that would be it in the Big Leagues, as he’d go on to play a couple more seasons in the Minor Leagues for Oakland and the Chicago Cubs before retiring as a player after 1977.
Later on he’d go on to coach and manage in the Minor Leagues, while also coaching with the St. Louis Cardinals under Joe Torre between 1991 and 1995.
Today he is still in baseball, serving as a special assistant to the coaching staff for Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, pushing 55 years in the Big Leagues in some capacity or another.
